What to Expect...When Reading to Your Child {Tips for Parents}

04 June 2013

When I say the words, "What To Expect When You're Expecting"...what do you think of? The book, right? Me, too! But did you know there is a What to Expect website, with tons of free, helpful resources for parents with children through age 5.

Recently, I was asked to be a guest blogger for the site, What to Expect, on the Word of Mom blog. So, as you can imagine, I wrote about something near and dear to my literacy heart...reading to your children. The guest blog post went live yesterday and you can read it over HERE.

In addition, I took a short informal poll of the Hello Literacy Facebook readers and asked them to recommend their one all-time favorite picture book. Here's what they had to say:

Special thanks to the following Hello Literacy Facebook contributors that made suggestions for the above list of Great Parent Read-Alouds...aren't Hello Literacy Facebook fans the BEST? "Totes!" As my 15 year old daughter would say (Translation: Totes = Totally)

Jennifer Reed

Angela Johnson Flavin

LeeAnn Johnson Moore

Hilary Philpott-Gard

Kim Arnold

Miranda Witchey Walls

Lisa Gray

Kerry Geraghty Keating

Christine Harris

Dondi Hobbs

Wendy Murdock Pagani

Halle Marie

Patrice Yvette Hardy

Reinventing the Wheels

Tamara Fisher Roberts

Phylleri Ball

Kelly Moseley Swartzel

Jennifer Huntsman Smith

I hope you enjoy it and feel free to pass it on to the parents of the students in your classroom.

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I would love a copy of the Great Parent Read Alouds! When you click to download it says there is an error. Thank you for all your great advice, I love learning from you and hope to one day attend a conference you are presenting at!

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Hello! My name is Jen Jones. I am passionate about literacy and research based best practices for 21st century literacy instruction. My goal for this blog is to provide high quality professional development in a casual, real-talk, teacher friendly way. When I'm not blogging about literacy instruction, I'm traveling the country providing face to face PD about best practices for literacy instruction or making & selling literacy products that make students think and make teachers better teachers. This is my goal.